Materfamilias Writes

Testing, with a view

Testing, with a view

I’ve just downloaded a blotted app on my android phone and will attempt to show you a few shots of our day in sooke yesterday. But my, these keyboards are small . . .

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Countdown to Sunday — Weddings and Marriages

Countdown to Sunday — Weddings and Marriages

 If we were hosting Megan and Rob’s wedding here this weekend (as we did with our eldest daughter’s a few years back), we’d be spending the day on the phone trying to arrange tents or…

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What I Wore, and Learning to Love Our Stomachs . . .

What I Wore, and Learning to Love Our Stomachs . . .

Edited to add a Welcome! to those of you visiting fromImogen’s blog. I’m busy helping with my daughter’s wedding preparations today, then celebrating at the wedding on sunday, but I’ll be interested in reading your…

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Roses and Weddings and a Mother’s Rambling Thoughts

Roses and Weddings and a Mother’s Rambling Thoughts

Bride-to-be picked up the succulents for her floral/table arrangements yesterday and she and her future mom-in-law and a girlfriend, I think, put them together in the vases her guy had scrounged up. I wish I’d…

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Entertaining Recipes — Food, Family, Good Times . . .

Entertaining Recipes — Food, Family, Good Times . . .

I’m very lucky to have a secret weapon in the entertaining department — came in handy when we had the houseguests this week. And what’s in that arsenal? Why, Pater makes a mean paella, and…

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